smackhead

(UK, derogatory, slang) A person who regularly uses heroin.


scat

en-noun

scat (countable and uncountable, plural scats)

Origin uncertain. Both the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster suggest derivation from Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”), compare English scato-, but Random House Dictionary suggests that the popular character of the word makes this unlikely. Perhaps from English dialectal scat (“to scatter, fling, bespatter”), or an alteration of shit, which is also used for "drugs, heroin".


smack

smack (countable and uncountable, plural smacks)

The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- (“to taste”).
The verb is from Middle English smaken.
Cognate with English dialectal smatch, Scots smak (“scent, smell, taste, flavour”), Saterland Frisian Smoak (“taste”), West Frisian smaak (“taste”), Dutch smaak (“taste”), German Schmack, Geschmack (“taste”), Danish smag (“taste”), Swedish and Norwegian smak (“taste”), Norwegian smekke . Akin to Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”). More at smatch.

cog

Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.

2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 191:


heroin

en-noun

heroin (countable and uncountable, plural heroins)

Since the 1890s, from German Heroin, originally a trademark, from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”) and the suffix -in (“-ine”). Said to have been called thus to evoke quick and sweeping effect as a painkiller and cough suppressant (its original uses). Alternatively explained as a reference to the heroic school of medicine.

Wow, that heroin is in my blood / And the blood is in my head / Yeah, thank God that I'm good as dead / Ooohhh, thank your God that I'm not aware / And thank God that I just don't care / And I guess I just don't know

1967, “Heroin”, in Lou Reed (music), The Velvet Underground & Nico, performed by The Velvet Underground:

I saw a real strange, weird object / Standing up talking to the people / And I found out it was heroin / That deadly drug that go in your veins

1972, “King Heroin”, in Manny Rosen (lyrics), There It Is, performed by James Brown:

2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22ⁿᵈ of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.

Yeah, it does, though, it does. Heroin works basically everywhere because it’s heroin. It’s not a cellphone. Heroin has full coverage.

2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Opiods”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 27, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

Okay, wel-, I’ll tell you where it stops: somewhere! Anytime someone asks, “Where does it stop?”, the answer is always fucking somewhere! You might let your kid have Twizzlers, but not inject black tar heroin! You d-You don’t just go, “Well, after the Twizzlers, where does it stop?”!

2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

That’s because the second thing to know about Games Workshop is, as Gillen says, that Warhammer was what middle-class nerds did instead of heroin. It was just as expensive, and probably no better for your social life.

2019 January 21, Alex Hern, “‘Heroin for middle-class nerds’: how Warhammer conquered gaming”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria, classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world.


works

werken

plural form of work (in its countable senses)

daden

an act associated with moral or religious standing

While in San Francisco, where the AIDS crisis was particularly devastating, they saw numerous public awareness signs reading “Bleach Your Works” posted around the city, urging IV drug users to clean their needles with bleach to help staunch the spread of the disease.

2009, Gillian G. Gaar, The Rough Guide to Nirvana, Rough Guides UK, →ISBN:

(slang) A heroin or other drug addict's equipment: syringes, needles, etc.


horse

Unknown; probably originally criminals' cant based on the initial letter of both words.

Also Horse harness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See Horse-drawn vehicles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Note: Many of these were adapted into and/or gave their names to motor vehicle types

with the horse-drawn originals often being forgotten.

Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar

It was to remember the juke box, the teasing, the dancing, the hard-on, the gang fights and gang bangs, his first set of drums—bought him by his father—his first taste of marijuana, his first snort of horse.

1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, page 6:


白麵

/paɪ̯³⁵ mi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/paɪ̯³⁵ mi̯ɑɻ⁵¹/

/paɪ̯³⁵ mi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/paɪ̯³⁵ mi̯ɑɻ⁵¹/


海洛因

/xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ lu̯ɔ⁵¹ in⁵⁵/

/hɔːi̯³⁵ lɔːk̚² jɐn⁵⁵/

/hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔk̚⁴⁻³² in⁴⁴/

/hai⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lɔk̚⁴⁻³² in⁴⁴/

/xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ lu̯ɔ⁵¹ in⁵⁵/

/hɔːi̯³⁵ lɔːk̚² jɐn⁵⁵/

/hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔk̚⁴⁻³² in⁴⁴/

/hai⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lɔk̚⁴⁻³² in⁴⁴/


四號

/sz̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ xɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/sz̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ xɑʊ̯⁵¹/


героиновый

ru-adj

герои́новый • (geroínovyj)

герои́новый (canonical)
geroínovyj (romanization)
герои́новый (masculine nominative)
герои́новое (neuter nominative)
герои́новая (feminine nominative)
герои́новые (nominative plural)
герои́нового (genitive masculine neuter)
герои́новой (feminine genitive)
герои́новых (genitive plural)
герои́новому (dative masculine neuter)
герои́новой (dative feminine)
герои́новым (dative plural)
герои́нового (accusative animate masculine)
герои́новое (accusative neuter)
герои́новую (accusative feminine)
герои́новых (accusative animate plural)
герои́новый (accusative inanimate masculine)
герои́новые (accusative inanimate plural)
герои́новым (instrumental masculine neuter)
герои́новой (feminine instrumental)
герои́новою (feminine instrumental)
герои́новыми (instrumental plural)
герои́новом (masculine neuter prepositional)
герои́новой (feminine prepositional)
герои́новых (plural prepositional)

[ɡʲɪrɐˈinəvɨj]


героинщик

ru-noun+

герои́нщик • (geroínščik) m anim (genitive герои́нщика, nominative plural герои́нщики, genitive plural герои́нщиков, feminine герои́нщица)

герои́нщик (canonical)
geroínščik (romanization)
герои́нщика (genitive)
герои́нщики (nominative plural)
герои́нщиков (genitive plural)
герои́нщица (feminine)
герои́нщик (nominative singular)
герои́нщики (nominative plural)
герои́нщика (genitive singular)
герои́нщиков (genitive plural)
герои́нщику (dative singular)
герои́нщикам (dative plural)
герои́нщика (accusative singular)
герои́нщиков (accusative plural)
герои́нщиком (instrumental singular)
герои́нщиками (instrumental plural)
герои́нщике (prepositional singular)
герои́нщиках (plural prepositional)

[ɡʲɪrɐˈinʲɕːɪk]